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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / teenage novel | | German term or phrase: Kassettenfenster | This is from a teenage novel, to be published initially in Australia and Canada. It is a description of Mara's grandparents' house, which she has never seen and only knows from photographs:
"Auf den Fotos war alles zu sehen, der Dachgiebel des Fachwerkhauses, die **Kassettenfenster** der Torbogen, durch den man auf das Grundstück kam, die großen Fenster der Schlachterei, über der in großen Buchstaben "Schlacterei Dohler" stand."
From the context I'm guessing at "leaded windows" but would be grateful for confirmation or alternative suggestions. Thanks. |
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 Henry Schroeder
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26 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 Casement windows
Explanation:
One modern example of a Kassettenfenster showed a window with divided lights - sometimes referred to as casement windows.
http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.nsf/pages/arch34
Architecture of Elizabethan Houses - Glass Windows
In the Elizabethan houses of the Upper and Middle classes panes of glass were added, replacing horn or wooden shutters, and the interior of homes became lighter and airier. To make a pane of glass was a painstaking process. A blob of glass was blown into a cylinder shaped bubble. The cylinder was placed on a cooling table and cut in half. A small piece of glass was produced. The small pieces of glass for the windows were joined together with lead. The leaded window panes were constructed in a in a criss-cross , or ‘lattice’, pattern. The design was a casement windows. Casement windows were attached to a hinge which opened outwards.
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/architecture-of-elizabetha...
| Kim Metzger
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37 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 lattice(d) windows
Explanation:
is what I would call the windows in Kim's reference.
They certainly appear in Eliot, Austen and Hardy novels...
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Note added at 38 mins (2007-01-05 14:13:53 GMT)
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http://images.google.com/images?hl=de&q=lattice window&lr=&i...
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Note added at 40 mins (2007-01-05 14:15:58 GMT)
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Here are the corresponding German Kassettenfenster:
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:jYU8fMrrbXIJ:www.luxor....
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Note added at 42 mins (2007-01-05 14:17:48 GMT)
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Yes, as Jane has noted in the meantime, a "casement window" does not have to be divided into latticed panes:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=de&q=casement window
| Henry Schroeder
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